You liked it as an R, you’ll love it as an X

Calling all gangstas! Grandma’s Boy, featuring the hard workin’ Linda Cardellini (left), is now available on DVD, with both R-rated and unrated versions on the same disc! Granted, there could be a few schmucks out there ready to buy anything labeled “unrated,” but why put both versions on the same disc? Is there anyone who wants to see the R version but feels he’d be corrupted by the unrated? Or do you show the R version when your parents are visiting, and save the unrated cut for poker night with your drinking buddies?
Back in January, a hard-workin’ Josh Levin at Slate watched 15 “unrated” videos, including The Dukes of Hazzard and American Wedding.

Alan Vanneman is a writer living in Washington, DC. He is the author of two dead-tree novels, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra and Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara, both published by Penzler Press. Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara is available as an audiobook from Blackstone/Downpour. He is also the author of three new Nero Wolfe novellas recreating Rex Stout’s famous fat detective, a FREE ebook, and Author! Author! Auden, Oates, and Updike, a collection of two short stories and a novella, available both as an ebook and print on demand. All of his fiction can be accessed here at his blog Literature R Us. Portions of his article "Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone," which originally appeared online in Bright Lights, have been included in a textbook anthology by Allison Smith, Trixie Smith, and Stacia Watkins.